Subtle Forum Spammers
I came across a blog today from blogrush that had a post explaining how to spam forums in a subtle manner. Of course, he called it "promoting", but really its a bit gray hat spamming. I wont link to the blog here as the blog owner doesnt deserve a link.
Basically, what the blog author suggests is that you find 10 or so different forums related to your site. Then register on each of those forums. Then create a signature on each forum which is worded in a subtle fashion. Then make 5-10 posts on each forum daily. Everyone who reads your psots will be exposed to your signature message.
Now, this does work. You will get some traffic from these signature links. But really it is a form of comment spam and not something I recommend doing.
I tend to think this way. How would I feel if it was MY forum that I was doing this on. Now, if you are really contributing to the forum, and your sig link is secondary to your participation on that forum, then that is fine. But if the only reason your on that forum is to promote your site - your a spammer.
Forum owners are used to getting spammed. I have written articles on How to reduce forum spam, and for the most part these methods work, at least for the nokia phone selling kind of spammer. Dont do it. It’s a short lived method of becoming successful on the net. Your reputation as a spammer will keep you from being offered better opportunities. Keep things white hat and above board. Do things right ad you will eventually be rewarded for hard work.
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November 15th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Yup there is definitely a thin line between promotion and spamming. The same goes with regular old mail, most of the times it’s just junk sometimes it’s something you want to hear about.
Personally if someone is just contributing one liners or BS posts my forum, I trash the posts. I see many forums with a post count limit to get sig links enabled. It’s a bad idea, I’ve said it from day one. “Promoters” aka spammers will just post drivel until they reach the threshold. It should be a time limit after say 30 days if you’re still around you may have your precious sig links.
On the other hand, a sig link is a reward for posting good information and contributing to a forum.. I don’t think that feature should just be given away.
-Dan
PS: Nice blog you got here, I’ve been following the feed since before you rebranded.. Colleen did an excellent job!
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Not sure what you mean by your question.. ?
November 21st, 2007 at 7:24 am
Good one Joey; I see these people all the time and do my best to nuke them. For some reason in the last few months most of them were promoting autoblogs. Great post great blog. Thanks for the share.
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
If you follow the suggestions in the article I mentioned, you’ll reduce spam and all but eliminate what spam actually gets through to your members.
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